Scroll to the bottom of this article (Captain America: One Year Later) at Marvel.com and you'll see a pic of the cover to the upcoming Cap #39, which--in case you haven't seen it and don't feel like clicking--features not one but two guys in Captain America costumes. One being the oh-so-shiny Winter Soldier variant (and I don't believe for a minute that, despite what he says, the stealth-savvy Winter Soldier would have had a hand in the design of such an unstealthy costume), the other apparently the more traditional look.
I've been fairly surprised to see how many folks on the internet conclude from this image that Steve Rogers is back. Anything is possible in comic-book-land, of course, but that just seems unlikely. The biggest second guess is that it's the time-displaced Cap due to appear in the upcoming Avengers/Invaders book, which I suppose is possible, but it also seems unlikely. Especially when there are so many much more interesting other possibilities! My guess at this point is that whoever it is, the Red Skull is behind it--it would appeal enormously to him to set up his own Captain America. If that's the case, my current theory is that the Skull's Cap (can I call him "Skull-Cap" or would that be too punny?) would act like regular Cap for a while, in order to gain the public's trust (and with the additional effect of making it more difficult for Bucky's less traditional interpretation of the role to gain public acceptance), and then do something, I don't know, traitorous? Just a guess there, of course.
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